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16 May 2013
Dear Sir, — I share the view that the decision on Cheshire East Council Mayoralty was flawed.The administration is mak...
Dear Sir, — The Independent group of councillors unanimously opposed the nomination of former Cheshire East Council le...
Dear Sir, — In reply to your reader who sent in the letter signed “Watching The Frog”, I can sympathise, a...
Dear Sir, — With reference to letters page last week re: “where has all the frogspawn gone”?I also have a ...
Some of you did well out of PPI So. If you are mis-sold personal protection insurance, you are entitled to compensation...
Dear Sir, — I was right in saying before the election that the result would be close (only five votes between my...
Dear Sir, — I hope that you and your readers will have noticed that I have kept my promise to avoid correspondence-col...
Dear Sir, — I see County Coun Ian Lawson jumping on the band waggon of UKIP policy in his letter last week, a now very...
Dear Sir, — I photographed this new-born butterfly last week. Can anybody tell me its scientific name? ...
Dear Sir, — Firstly I must say that I have been quite overwhelmed by the very many personal greetings, telephone calls...
Dear Sir, — Your editorial last week was well timed. This week the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere exceede...
Dear Sir, — This is an invitation to the ill-informed Mr Milne.Both I and one quarter of the population could take off...
Dear Sir, — There has been much debate about the results of the county council elections last week. In the North ...
Dear Sir, — I find myself having to refute the outrageous claims made by Ronald Milne in last week’s edition, wh...
Dear Sir, — You may recall that I wrote a letter recently to the Chronicle about the potential closure of the pu...
Dear Sir, — In reply to the letter headed “High-handed tactics of the Ramblers”, I feel that I should outl...
Dear Sir, — As a walker and Timbersbrook resident, I would like to thank the Ramblers, and particularly Alan Soper, fo...
Dear Sir, — After the North West Tonight programme announced the youngest Mayor in England, and having lived and worke...
This week, our Slovenian correspondent, newly moved into Congleton (or the Congo Basin as it’s known by locals) ponders the ...
Dear Sir, — I write with a great degree of appreciation for the outstanding support and good wishes which I have recei...
Dear Sir, — I can understand Coun Sam Corcoran’s confusion with the decision to expand Wheelock Primary School, ...
Dear Sir, — After a long round trip of over 400 miles to the Rotary RIBI national finals of the young musician of the ...
Dear Sir, — Regarding James Byrne’s story, “Reassurance over police youth ambassador post”: does he not be...
Dear Sir, — I wish to thank Mary and Will Piper, proprietors of the BodyCity Gym on Moody Street, Congleton, for a fantastic...
Dear Sir, — While we were away in North Wales last week, I read the local newspapers as usual. I was surprised to find that...
Be warned. He’s miserable, even more so than usual, and is delusional enough to think he’s heading home to take over f...
09 May 2013
Battle of the chartersThis week, we try and bring readers up to speed with what is misleadingly known as “Press reform&rdquo...
Dear Sir, — When it comes to thinking about my mom, the things that make me cry are random and usually unexpected.Toni...
Dear Sir, — Recent history: it is surprising that many people do not know what has shaped this country.If, in the earl...
Dear Sir, — Here is a “who dunnit” for all your knowledgeable readers out there.I have a pond in my garden...
Dear Sir, — As a carer/customer of Mountview I recently attended a consultation meeting on the proposed closure. This ...
Dear Sir, — “Heads you loos”.It is the expressed wish of the council to attract non shoppers into the town...
Dear Sir, — It is a disgrace that in this day and age Congleton will soon be unable to offer residents and visitors al...
Dear Sir, — I believe there are clean toilets with disabled access, located on the ground floor of Congleton Town Hall...
Dear Sir, — I write to congratulate Congleton town Mayor-elect Coun George Hayes. Having seen first-hand the commitmen...
Dear Sir, — In a move presumably intended to forestall future criticism, Nigel Farage has admitted that, since UKIP la...
Dear Sir, — With the passing of Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the United K...
Dear Sir, — In response to claims that privatisation could wreck our postal service, I would like to set out some impo...
Dear Sir, — Give him the honour and the glory. Following on from the well-attended Good Friday service, the middl...
Dear Sir, — As mentioned by Marge Reynolds’s letter 25th April, it is indeed quite sad to hear that the old Brown Lees...
Dear Sir, — Some Conservative literature recently distributed in Biddulph featured a photo of a big energy week event last y...
Dear Sir, — I am writing in response to the letter and photograph in the “Chronicle” of 11th April, stating that...
Dear Sir, — The first pages I turn to after buying my copy of the Biddulph Chronicle are the letters pages. We don’t g...
Dear Sir, — Now that Biddulph’s new medical centre is nearly ready for use, it looks as if there won’t be enough...
Dear Sir, — Each week, I read about planning proposals in local areas. Developers would like to build grand schemes, which i...
Dear Sir, — May 17th is Nautical Friday, Seafarers UK’s annual fundraising day, when people are being asked to wear so...
Dear Sir, — I would like to thank our local MP Fiona Bruce for her support with assisting to help with my VAT return and the...
Dear Sir, — After weeks of campaigning, canvassing, leafleting, many letters to the Chronicle and a town council speech, I m...
Dear Sir, — Mark Twain, paraphrasing a quote of Disraeli, said that when somebody is trying to use the persuasive power of n...
Dear Sir, — Firstly may I take this opportunity to thank the people of Biddulph North, Moor and West for their support...
Dear Sir, — We have recently returned home from holiday, driving through France and returning via Eurostar from Calais to Fo...
Dear Sir, — Regarding the letter from “John” regarding the pedestrian crossing at Biddulph Arms, as I see things...
Dear Sir, — I enclose a photograph that some readers of the Sandbach and Congleton editions may find interesting. It is of B...
Dear Sir, — I feel it is only correct that I address a factual error in a recent letter that I wrote to the Chronicle. This ...
Dear Sir, — “Drunk driver went wrong way up A500”; “Amazing other motorists weren’t killed on D-road...
Dear Sir, — It is time to put pen to paper and let the public known how the Ramblers use high-handed tactics to get their ow...
Dear Sir, — Cheshire East Council is finally recognising that it made a big mistake in imposing parking charges on Crewe and...
Dear Sir, — Throughout the “Chronicle’s” report of bogus callers, the common trait is that of being from t...
Dear Sir, — Readers may have seen a brochure for “The Salt Line and Wheelock Rail Trail”. The information...
This week he’s in the middle of nowhere, and worried what his lamb might really be made of. This week’s column comes ...
We were going to moan about UKIP this week but instead we’re going to be more constructive and talk about cheap clothing. M...
Dear Sir, — Residents of Astbury Marsh have received notices from a development company, Astbury Mere Development, giving de...
Dear Sir, — The site visit for the Meadow Avenue (Priesty Fields, Congleton,) appeal has been rearranged for 11am on Wednesd...
Dear Sir, — Last week’s letters gave us a clear example of, if your arguments are attacked, and in a number of cases s...
Dear Sir, — Why do politicians categorise letters correcting their factual inaccuracies as an attack? I am happy to engage i...
Dear Sir, — I’m the type of person who tends to ignore stress and just gets on with it. But things got really bad just...
Dear Sir, — Once again I want to congratulate the actors and the production team for their brilliant production of Dad&rsquo...
02 May 2013
Dear Sir, — Thank you for the excellent article in last week’s Sandbach Chronicle on the award of funding to San...
Dear Sir, — I fully support the residents who would like the proposals recently exhibited by Seddon Homes, to build un...
Dear Sir, — On May 7th Cheshire East Council will elect a deputy mayor. He or she will almost automatically become the...
Dear Sir, — I read with interest and amusement your editorial on potholes. I agree with your statement that “for...
Do you remember that classic episode of The Young Ones called Boring?Rick (spotty young Tory boy, certain similarities with ...
This week, Martin Staton, of Buttermere Court, Congleton, has “a little rant” about potholes…I remember my dad ...
Dear Sir, — Re: Cheshire East. Like your first correspondent this week, I too had a good laugh at the grandiose titles...
Dear Sir, — Following the letter by Mr Chaddock relating to the multi coloured scrap yard at Three Nooks imposed upon ...
Dear Sir, — Re: drilling at Three Nooks Farm. It is time to put a few things straight as the owner of Three Nooks farm...
Dear Sir, — I write in response to Mr Chaddock’s letter concerning the blot on the Green Belt landscape at Three...
Dear Sir, — RSPCA head office has just announced its latest statistics.Sadly, convictions for animal neglect and cruel...
Dear Sir, — I would like to thank you for making contact to inform me that I had won two tickets for the Stoke City ve...
Dear Sir, — No doubt there will be many comments about Margaret Thatcher who died last week at the Ritz Hotel and many...
Dear Sir, — I see that Mr F E Hutchinson is back with his letters attacking Mrs Bickerton, myself and anyone else who ...
Dear Sir, — How common it has become since the first book by Ian Fleming, about the exploits of James Bond 007, licens...
Dear Sir, — World Day for Laboratory Animals was on Wednesday 24th April 2013. Following the huge success of the end t...
Dear Sir, — Once again an angel has been filmed by NASA.This time it was on 20th February, 2013 at 7.48am from the sol...
Not entirely a cloudless dayIf anyone ever asked me what was one of the most enjoyable pastimes for me in this town apart from exp...
That some people are never happy whatever happens was illustrated this week with the reaction to figures about “community re...
Dear Sir, — I am devastated to hear that Astbury Mere Trust’s support for Astbury Watersports has been withdrawn...
Dear Sir, — I believe every resident of Congleton will agree that Congleton town has not received the best service fro...
Dear Sir, — While I was shopping last week in Morrison’s, I was standing in the queue behind a lovely young lady...
Dear Sir, — Well it is not often that a councillor bothers to make a response to a fairly innocuous letter I had print...
Dear Sir, — Thank you to everyone — the 1,730 people that signed the Mountview petition.I urge anyone who has no...
Dear Sir, — When David Cameron was asked by the BBC television on Friday morning news how UKIP would affect their elec...
25 April 2013
The problem of potholes continues to be a popular topic on our letters pages, and arguably highlights everything that’...
Dear Sir, — As an advocate of raw-feeding of pets, I read the latest Chronicle Pet’s Page with co...
Dear Sir, — According to Philip Larkin sex was invented in 1963 and if last week’s edition was correct Mrs Bicke...
Dear Sir, — Goodness, I hardly dare put pen to paper (or, in my case, finger to keyboard), having read Mr Milne’...
Dear Sir, — Twice last week I had to send off two parcels via the Royal Mail. So, to give me an idea of the cost I wen...
Dear Sir, — I’m writing regarding a letter printed anonymously last week by someone calling themselves “Sa...
A European’s view of CongletonRed tape not so red after allThis week, the second in our new series of columns presenting an ...
Dear Sir, — Cheshire East is considering a four week consultation from May 3rd concerning our Local Plan Core Strategy...
Dear Sir, — It is good to hear once again that Mrs R Bickerton is alive and kicking (last week’s letters), even ...
Dear Sir, — The campaign literature of the UKIP candidate Allan Chesworth, has just arrived and quite frankly I am not...
Dear Sir, — I read with disbelief the antics of Bob Hart the pedestrian crossing campaigner in last week’s Chron...
Dear Sir, — It was with much sadness and poignancy that I read recently that Brown Lees Methodist Chapel is to be demo...
So Maggie has been buried with (generally) the respect a major British statesperson should. No matter what, she was our ELECTED Pr...
Dear Sir, — I am writing to express our thanks and gratitude to the young gentlemen Kyle Taylor and Alex McCulloch who...
Dear Sir, — I was saddened to read that Morrisons is installing machines to replace manual counting in its back office...
Dear Sir, — The consultation period on the future of Mountview Community Support centre is about to end today (Thursda...
Dear Sir, — I was at the recent meeting of Congleton Town Council sub-committee meeting where it was suggested that to...
Dear Sir, — Seddon Homes would like us to think that they are the very model of public philanthropy in the development...
Dear Sir, — I attended the town council meeting last week on Tuesday, 16th April, to address the town council on local issue...
Dear Sir, — The election period for the county council election are well and truly under way and I’m sure a lot of vot...
Dear Sir, — After some four years and around 200 letters written, I really would like to thank the editor and staff of Chron...
Dear Sir, — I was very impressed with the letters you published on behalf of Matthew Tolley last week. Mr Tolley did a far b...
Dear Sir, — It would seem that UKIP are a bit confused where the county ward boundaries are. The leaflet that they put throu...
Dear Sir, — I am pleased to report that my results so far from doorstep and phone canvassing are largely very positive for t...
18 April 2013
Dear Sir, — As a resident of Biddulph Moor and a staunch supporter of all things Moorlands I have become increasingly ...
Dear Sir, — As a resident of Gardeners Close, may I express my disgust at the manner in which the objections to the pr...
Dear Sir, — At least the rain held off until it was almost the end of the children’s Easter holiday break. When ...
Dear Sir, — I would like to comment on Ian Lawson’s comments regarding scaremongering and national politics havi...
Dear Sir, — I was amazed to read the letter from the Independent/Tory councillor in last week’s Chronicle about ...
Dear Sir, — Biddulph Business Chamber wants to attract more people to the town. Tongue in cheek, I would like to ...
Dear Sir, — Further to last week’s Chronicle front page story about a pothole on Outclough road in Brindley Ford...
Dear Sir, — Last month I distributed 4,900 surveys around Biddulph South and East. I’d like to thank everyone wh...
Dear Sir, — We are delighted that after over 20 years of campaigning, animal testing for cosmetics has finally been ba...
Dear Sir, — May I respond to the letter from MEP Chris Davies (28th March)?Beeching did not “go too far”. ...
Dear Sir, — Marie Curie Nurses are thanking everyone in Congleton for helping to make the charity’s Great Daffod...
This week, he’s been on his travels again...It’s late on Sunday night, and I’ve just finished packing for a trip...
Musings of a Simple Soul . . .Boarding: I note there have been suggestions and offers to board over that old boat on the Dane. It ...
Dear Sir, — Let’s nationalise…I see from her letter that Mrs Bickerton is back, and back on her old hobby...
Dear Sir, — I would like to put Biddulph town councillor Rod Whilding, right. It was not Margaret Thatcher who br...
Dear Sir, — I read with interest the article praising Mrs Thatcher last week.Is this the same Mrs Thatcher who was com...
Dear Sir, — Coun Sam Corcoran, and perhaps some church leaders, are unable or unwilling to understand a basic truth an...
Dear Sir, — I have just returned from a fascinating afternoon in Congleton. Thanks to the museum, we, that is a large ...
Dear Sir, — Leonard Cheshire Disability is offering three disabled people the chance to meet politicians at the annual...
The NHS explained A few years back we covered a council meeting that debated the NHS. We were quite amused that councillors did n...
Dear Sir, — It must be 10 years or more since I last put pen to paper in a letter to the Chronicle. Once that woman fr...
Dear Sir, — I was interested in the most recent electronic newsletter from Cheshire East Council that its population i...
Dear Sir, — Congleton First Responders are inviting the local community to join our friendly team, learn new skills, m...
Dear Sir, — I am appalled at Coun Neville Price and former Labour Coun Lisa Bossons trying make party political statem...
Dear Sir, — So Cheshire East Council is now proposing to close the toilets in Congleton, and other towns. What a farce...
Dear Sir, — Derek White, chairman of Congleton Residents Against Seddon Homes, claims that the proposed development be...
Dear Sir, — Correspondents last week raised the romantic notion of independent councillors standing for county council...
Dear Sir, — Coun Chadwick considers that: “I can’t justify spending money on town signs” advertising...
Dear Sir, — Can I give you an update on your story about the cancellation of the Christian Aid Walk around Tittesworth...
Dear Sir, — I submit for your consideration a little prose inspired by a few local politicians who I believe, are more...
Dear Sir, — Some weeks ago I wrote to our local water company and enquired about the cost of having a water meter fitt...
Dear Sir, — Never underestimate the generous of strangers. Yesterday when embarking on a bike ride, from Congleton to ...
Dear Sir, — The current measles outbreak in Swansea shows how important vaccines are. It also shows the dangers of irr...
Dear Sir, — Reference, recent letters “Wise Owl” and “Owl”. I presume they are talking about H...
Dear Sir, — I am writing on behalf of Christian Aid Congleton Churches Together to express our thanks for the generous...
Dear Sir, — If the Macclesfield MP is concerned about prostate cancer, then I would love to know his opinions as...
Dear Sir, — As president of the Congleton History Society I should like to express my gratitude on behalf of the socie...
Dear Sir, — In these times of recession and the tightening of household belts where money is in short supply, perhaps ...
Dear Sir, — Congleton Food4Free aims to plant up the majority of the Capitol Walk/bus station bed with attractive edib...
Dear Sir, — Millions of e-cigarettes are now being sold. They can help smokers cut their habit by meeting the craving ...
Dear Sir, — We have so many different ways to communicate that future ages may be unable to understand our culture.His...
Dear Sir, — Love her or hate her — and people either did one or the other — Baroness Thatcher deserves her...
Dear Sir, — The much-loved Astbury May Day is on Saturday, 18th May, and the programme includes a piece on memories fr...
Dear Sir, — George Osborne amazed me last week. How can he blame Mick Philpott killing his six children on the welfare...
Dear Sir, — In last week’s issue, my spelling of Alsager Plain was shown as Plane throughout....
A European's view of Congleton ‘A giant leap for a small girl’This week we start a new series of articles, written b...
11 April 2013
He’s never hidden his politics, so and be warned. What was intended as a personal tribute to Margaret Thatcher ends up...
Dear Sir, — Margaret Thatcher was one of our greatest Prime Ministers. When she became our first female Prime Minister...
Dear Sir, — It is with great sadness that I have learned of Baroness Thatcher’s death. We have lost a great lead...
Dear Sir, — Under Cheshire East Council’s outsourced highways maintenance contract, the quality of pothole repai...
Dear Sir, — Peter Mandelson Labour MP said before the Labour Party lost the last general election, that the Tories wer...
Dear Sir, — In my recent letter about council tax on empty flats, I seem to have upset the residents at Priesty Court ...
Dear Sir, — I don’t normally name people in my letters, as I dislike giving them the oxygen of publicity. H...
Dear Sir, — The weather certainly continues to baffle the experts. As I write this letter it is a glorious sunny day, ...
Dear Sir, — I write in relation to the front page article in last week’s edition regarding the construction of b...
Dear Sir, — May I first applaud your decision to limit the succession of squabbling letters between the Labour and Con...
Dear Sir, — I would like to congratulate all involved in identifying and repairing the many potholes that have appeare...
Dear Sir, — I would like to comment on last week’s article by Mr Chell regarding the withdrawal of the residents...
Dear Sir, — The appalling meanness and short-sightedness of the Conservatives has united Catholic and Anglican leaders...
Dear Sir, — On Tuesday, 26th March, Clonter Opera proudly attended the Manchester Theatre Awards at the Opera House, i...
Dear Sir, — Congratulations to Adullam Homes and Housing Association on their 40th anniversary on helping to get unfor...
Usually we have an opinion on most things, even if we keep them to ourselves (also, not usual). But the planning shenanigans...
Dear Sir, — Does anybody out there possibly have any 3’x2’ flagstones in good condition that are superfluo...
Dear Sir, — I’d just like to say how wonderful our parkrun is at Astbury Mere.It’s nice to be able to us i...
Dear Sir, — Your issue of 4th April comprehensively reports the challenges which have beset the local head teachers, n...
Dear Sir, — 230 (Congleton) Squadron Air Training Corps is delighted to extend an invitation to our local teenage comm...
Dear Sir, — Friends for Leisure was delighted to be chosen as charity of the year by the East Cheshire Chamber of Comm...
Dear Sir, — “The Toilet Lady” in her letter published in the Chronicle on 7th March makes some salient and...
Dear Sir, — In the debate over the legal definition of marriage both sides agreed on what a wonderful thing marriage i...
Dear Sir, — What happens after so many houses have been built?1. They say that the building of a large number of house...
Dear Sir, — Last week a letter from L K Hancock (Alsager) was critical of Fanny’s Croft (Alsager), an access poi...
Dear Sir, — Social care is one of the most important services that Cheshire East should be thinking about, how its cut...
Dear Sir, — In the Chronicle last week I see that town councillors Allen, Holland and Bates were pictured visiting Mou...
Dear Sir, — What on earth is Cheshire East Council playing at?They appear to be wasting money all across the borough....
Dear Sir, — This week we have had once again Cheshire East Council making the lives of the most vulnerable members of ...
Dear Sir, — A lively public meeting, organised by the Save Mountview campaign and attended by more than 80 local resid...
Dear Sir, — On Saturday, 6th April, on the car park outside Aldi at West Street Heath Shopping Centre (between noon an...
Dear Sir, — To Mr Grumpy: Having worked away from home for nearly a year, I thought on many occasions when reading you...
Dear Sir, — Today is the start of our new campaign at the British Heart Foundation to “Fight for Every Heartbeat...
Dear Sir, — I am very concerned for the huge diversity of wildlife that will be affected by screening off the steamboa...
Dear Sir, — With every day that passes it becomes more apparent that the NHS was privatised in all but name under Labo...
Dear Sir, — The “revamp” by Cheshire East Council seems like an Alice-in-Wonderland nightmare, full of wac...
04 April 2013
He’s back! And grumpier than ever! Oh, and he said he’d only send a column in if we promised not to censor it. Y...
Dear Sir, — Of course we expect lovely photos of the Easter bonnets, made by local children, to be a feature of the Ch...
Dear Sir, — “Where is the April fool now”? Thanks to the new Westfields, Sandbach is the centre of East Ch...
Dear Sir, — I am on long-term disability benefit and despite trying I have not been able to work for many years. ...
Dear Sir, — Our respected burgess Ernie Clarke wrote to you last week with a list of gripes about “Tory Cheshire...
Dear Sir, — Even the most hardened supporter of the local Conservative Party must sometimes wonder how they can contin...
Dear Sir, — Those who care for frail relatives and friends provide a valuable service that eases the pressure on counc...
Dear Sir, — I was approached by a very nice lady on Sunday morning, asking me if Cheshire East Council was really goin...
Dear Sir, — In a desperate attempt to hold down council tax, Cheshire East Council has transferred responsibility for ...
Dear Sir, — As I was away last weekend I missed the news concerning the projected closure of the town’s toilets....
Last week’s column made no apology for only being able to have a less-than-thrilling splash in a quiet Moorlands town....
Dear Sir, — Further to the article “Will one-way be the right way for bus route” by Kelly Harris in the Bi...
Dear Sir, — Is anyone else as upset as I am that Biddulph Grange Garden has decided not to issue resident passes to th...
Dear Sir, — I wish to congratulate the Youth Theatre Company on a fantastic performance of Les Miserables at the Danes...
Dear Sir, — Staffordshire Police has a chief constable who went to university and did not start at the bottom of the l...
Dear Sir, — Are any of your readers experiencing problems with the Royal Mail postal service over small parcels? I am ...
Dear Sir, — I read the editorial comments about Astrazeneca with interest and feel some sympathy for the staff who fac...
Dear Sir, — News of Astrazeneca relocating its research and development activities to Cambridge is a blow to the East ...
Dear Sir, — Until recently, it had been many years since I thought about the newts which we used to see as children.Th...
Sparkling, shimmering, The morning Sun catches your eye As you hang Like a piece of silver lace Among the shrubs....
Dear Sir, — Yesterday was sunny, but very cold and dry in Elworth.Andy drove through snow to get here for work. Clare ...
Dear Sir, — The lunacy continues at “Westfield Towers” with the Mountview fiasco: will it or won’t i...
Dear Sir, — If we needed any further evidence that the division of Cheshire into parts was a mistake, the shambles in ...
Simple Soul Females are clever: Arriving home the other morning after walking the dogs, I found my dear lady in the kitchen ...
Dear Sir, — I was reading (Moorlands MP) Karen Bradley’s Chronicle article on the state of the UK’s ...
Dear Sir, — In your columns last week (28th March), Mr Johnston, regional secretary of the Midlands TUC complained in ...
Dear Sir, — Firefighters, fire cadets and helpers would like to thank the people of Congleton and Holmes Chapel for th...
Dear Sir, — When I first saw the headline “Let down by an out-of touch Chancellor” on a letter from a trad...
Dear Sir, — Like most Congleton householders, I have just received my council tax details for 2012-14 together with a ...
Dear Sir, — In (ITALICS) Readers’ Views (28th March), Wise Owl was in a fluster about the parking problems on Ha...
Dear Sir, — I read with interest letter from S Dyke, Alsager, regarding land at Fanny’s Croft, Alsager. In ...
Dear Sir, — Anyone planning to have their say at the county council elections on 2nd May has only a few days left to r...
Dear Sir, — Could Couns Lawson and Wood kindly cease their tit for tat in the Chronicle. There are enough argum...
Dear Sir, — I find myself having to respond to the untruths written about me by Matthew Tolly in last week’s edi...
Dear Sir, — It’s been a while since I’ve typed up a letter but, given that it’s holiday time I...
Dear Sir, — I make no excuse for this week’s letter being about the coming county council elections next month, ...
Dear Sir, — The theme for the Biddulph Festival this year is America, starting with an Americana music weekend on Frid...
Dear Sir, — I am not a county councillor candidate in May but I have spent five years of my political life putting tog...
28 March 2013
Dear Sir, — Why don’t Siemens workers use that big car park they have instead of parking on Havannah Street or a...
Dear Sir, — It always amazes me the amount of litter that gets dropped in Congleton — sweet wrappers, drink cans...
Dear Sir, — I have recently received notification from Cheshire East Council regarding the planning application 12/322...
Dear Sir, — I thought the old adage was March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb but maybe nobody told Marc...
Dear Sir, — Over the many, many years during which I have read the Chronicle, I’ve seen changes of reporters and...
Dear Sir, — Cheshire East Council aims to tackle another 42,000 potholes by the summer but having travelled around rec...
Dear Sir, — With reference to the proposal for a market in Sandbach on the fourth Saturday of the month: does the town...
Dear Sir, — Cheshire East Council has announced that the public toilets in Holmes Chapel (and a number of other locati...
Dear Sir, — Through your newspaper I would like to pay tribute to all those who participated in the Rotary Club of San...
Dear Sir, — What a contrast on last week’s letters page between the letter headed “Labour in power would h...
Dear Sir, — Some readers might be angry that my previous letters attacked families that were founded and entirely sust...
Dear Sir, — Please find below a list of inaccuracies that were present in the article printed Thursday, 21st March, ro...
Dear Sir, — Well done Congleton Town Council or at least the short-sighted councillors on the Finance and Policy Commi...
Dear Sir, — Cheshire East Council must be blissfully unaware of a worldwide trend of an ageing society and in denial o...
Dear Sir, — The problem of a shortage of houses is still with us across the country. Consequently, I feel justified in...
Dear Sir, — Dr Beeching got it right in part; the operation of many minor railways he proposed for closure could not b...
Dear Sir, — Today George Osborne stood up in the House of Commons and unveiled his latest budget. Unfortunately, all h...
This week, in the wake of Astrazeneca’s announcement to axe 1,600 roles, one of the firm’s former drug researchers has...
Dear Sir, — This week, Cheshire East Council announced its intention to close 13 public toilets within the borough, th...
Dear Sir, — Contrary to what Mike Knowles (Reader’s Views 21st March) thinks, the Congleton Link Road/Bypass is ...
Dear Sir, — Be still my beating heart! Could it be that something is finally happening behind the boarded up bombsite ...
Dear Sir, — I asked the question some weeks ago and now we know there is nothing this Tory Cheshire East Council will ...
Dear Sir, — There may be readers of the Chronicle who are looking for an activity for their children over Easter and m...
Dear Sir, — I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people I have had the pleasure of working with over...
As can be seen by the adjacent letter, we upset another school last week with the front page story in our Biddulph edition. For t...
Dear Sir, — Yet again I find myself reading another sensationalised article that you have deemed fit to cover the fron...
Dear Sir, — I was aware that McCarthy and Stone had written to Congleton Town Council expressing its concerns over the...
Dear Sir, — So, reading between the lines, it would appear McCarthy and Stone have suddenly realised that they might n...
Dear Sir, — How kind and thoughtful of McCarthy and Stone to offer to screen the boat on the Dane with a hoarding. No ...
Dear Sir, — Luke chapter 23 verse 26: “As they led Jesus away to be crucified they sized Simon from Cyrene, who ...
Dear Sir, — I recently noticed that the last X38 bus from Congleton, for Biddulph, passed Congleton railway station at...
Dear Sir, — Cats Protection have juvenile cats, which have been neutered, two of them have also been blood tested, whi...
Dear Sir, — We in Biddulph have long been puzzled by an edifice situated about half way into Cross Street, Biddulph.&n...
Dear Sir, — I notice that the energy contractor Eon is currently installing new lighting in Biddulph High street/King ...
Dear Sir, — Coun Wood once more attempts to attack County Coun Lawson with partial truths and total untruths; does he ...
Dear Sir, — Re: councillors and “he said, she said”: what about the fire service? I am writing with...
Dear Sir, — It seems I have finally installed some passion into County Coun Ian Lawson regarding a number of local iss...
Dear Sir, — Mr Chesworth ends his letter last week, I notice, by revealing his true intentions — to “contr...
Dear Sir, — April means big changes for everyone, both in work and out of work, who relies on support from tax c...
Dear Sir, — The recent Eastleigh Parliamentary by election and Congleton Town Council West Ward by election high...
Dear Sir, — Reading through recent columns of the Chronicle has prompted me to put pen to paper, as I read that three ...